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Updated on 2023-05-09 GMT+08:00
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What Are the Differences Between Cloud Connect and VPC Peering?

Cloud Connect differs from VPC Peering in the following ways:

  • Interworking capabilities: VPC Peering can only connect two VPCs in the same region, but Cloud Connect can connect multiple VPCs either in the same region or in different regions.
  • Network capabilities: After you create a VPC peering connection, you need to manually configure routes. With Cloud Connect, you do not need to configure routes.
  • The bearer network: VPC Peering uses the data center network, but Cloud Connect uses a DCI backbone network.
  • Billing: VPC Peering is free. With Cloud Connect, communications between VPCs in the same region is also free, but cross-region communications require a bandwidth package, which is not free.

Table 1 compares these differences.

Table 1 Differences between Cloud Connect and VPC Peering

Item

VPC Peering

Cloud Connect

Interworking capability

VPCs within a region

Supported

Supported

VPCs across regions

Not supported

Supported

Cross-border compliance

Not supported

Supported

Networking capability

Manual routing configuration

Automatic routing configuration

Bearer network

Data center network in the region

Inter-region DCI backbone network

Pricing

Free of charge

Free of charge within a region and billed based on standard pricing across regions